Are our FSDs imperial? Ton vs Tonne

Para Handy

Para Handy
I never noticed this before, no doubt it is old news but I was disappointed to see a weight given in Imperial Measure when my jump exceeded the max fuel allowance. It is shown as "tons":

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Come on F D lets have our Tonnes please..... ;)

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Devari

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Tons can either be:

"Short tons" (non-metric US ton) which are 2000 lbs
"Long tons" (non-metric Imperial) which are 2240 pounds
"Metric tons" (SI unit) which are 1000 kg (approx. 2205 pounds)

Generally if you're referring specifically to the metric ton you can use tonne instead, but if you're referring to "tons" in plural you could actually mean any of these three units of measure. Presumably in Elite however they're all metric tons, because metric makes more sense to use in space. Also considering that our HUDs all have metric measurements, even going to far as to use "1 Mm" instead of "1000 km", you can assume that for Elite "1 ton" = "1 tonne" = 1000 kg.
 
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Trueno33

Trueno33
Just a silly question: what does the message mean exactly? Why the fuel limit is 5 tons or tonnes or whatever? There' s no limit to 5 tons in my experience. I do jumps that use more fuel. What am I missing?
 
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Gunnet

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Trueno33 said:
Just a silly question: what does the message mean exactly? Why the fuel limit is 5 tons or tonnes or whatever? There' s no limit to 5 tons in my experience. I do jumps that use more fuel. What am I missing?
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If there was no limit on the fuel you could use in a single jump you could get ridiculous jump range by stacking fuel tanks. The limit depends on the FSD though. If you fly something with more than a 5A FSD you can use more than 5t. Engineer FSD mods can also raise it.
 

Para Handy

Para Handy
Devari said:
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Generally if you're referring specifically to the metric ton you can use tonne instead, but if you're referring to "tons" in plural you could actually mean any of these three units of measure. Presumably in Elite however they're all metric tons, because metric makes more sense to use in space. Also considering that our HUDs all have metric measurements, even going to far as to use "1 Mm" instead of "1000 km", you can assume that for Elite "1 ton" = "1 tonne" = 1000 kg.
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My point was simply that they use "tonne" elsewhere. Tonne is the correct spelling and use of Americanisations like "metric ton" is not to my liking in a game which has a certain "Britishness" about it.

It is not important (at all) it just took my fancy during a very late session....

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Sapyx

Sapyx
Generally, in places where both metric and Imperial weights are in use, (i.e. the entire English-speaking world outside of America) the metric one is spelled "tonne", to help distinguish them; there is no such thing in non-American English as a "metric ton".

Generally, ED gets it right. Though I have noticed that, since 2.1 was introduced, the missions all talk about "units" of cargo, rather than "tonnes".
 

Ca$hback

Ca$hback
^That's how we learned it in school. A ton is 2000lbs. A tonne is 1000kg. Tonnes would be cleaner, IMO. I still get four furlongs to the hogs head though.
 
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GraXXoR

GraXXoR
Depends... if you put one in a Cutter it will most likely be imperial, but if you put one in a Dropship, it will be Federal.
 

Para Handy

Para Handy
Gamel0rd1 said:
Frontier is British but the Galactic time ingame is -1 UK time! Uh oh!
Then again there ain't timezones in space
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Tataboj said:
The Galactic time is +0 Greenwich Mean Time, which is standard UK time (it's Summer Time in UK right now) ;)
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Just like aviation on Old-World Earth - co-ordinated universal time - UTC (Temps Universel Coordonné in an ancient Earth language) - is necessary to provide a standard time to co-ordinate activities / schedules.

In the military and aviation this is called Z (zulu) time, so that 4 o'clock in the afternoon on the Prime Meridian on Earth during winter would be written as 16:00Z (I leave out the date and seconds parts).



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Trueno33

Trueno33
Gunnet said:
If there was no limit on the fuel you could use in a single jump you could get ridiculous jump range by stacking fuel tanks. The limit depends on the FSD though. If you fly something with more than a 5A FSD you can use more than 5t. Engineer FSD mods can also raise it.
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Thank you for your answer, but still doesnt make sense. A hauler with 2A fsd can jump up to 35 lys, how's that?
 

Jukelo

Jukelo
Trueno33 said:
Thank you for your answer, but still doesnt make sense. A hauler with 2A fsd can jump up to 35 lys, how's that?
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Because the hauler is lightweight and the 0.9 maximum tonnes of fuel the 2A FSD can use in one jump can take it 35ly.
 
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